“I don’t know.” (Said in the tones of someone who not only doesn’t KNOW, but doesn’t give a shit.)

“My skin is…peachy.”

“I know.” (Same tones.)

“Let’s go play on the Wii.”

“Okay!” (Note the decided upswing in the level of interest.)

This is not the first time they have posed this question to me. We keep telling them, the same parents can produce different colors. The Tech Guru has 2 brothers. Same dad, same mom, all 3 of them of have different coloring. The eldest is the palest, the middle one is the darkest, and the Tech Guru, the baby is the tan one. I think it’s pretty cool.

When Punksin was born, we both noticed she was very slightly darker than both of us. Then along came Pudding, and he was decidedly LIGHTER than both of us – he even has dark blonde hair/light brown hair. It’s like she skews to her maternal grandparents, and he got his coloring from his paternal grandparents.